school: Meaning and Definition of

school

1. an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school.
2. an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field.
3. a college or university.
4. a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school.
5. a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school.
6. the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school.
7. one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school.
8. a building housing a school.
9. the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium.
10. a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture.
11. a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school.
12. any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything.
13. the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy.
14. the modern school; the Florentine school.
1. a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence:the modern school; the Florentine school.
2. the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity:the French school.
15. any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs.
16. parts of close-order drill applying to the individualthe squador the like.
17. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking.
18. the faculties of a university.
19. the schoolmen in a medieval university.

1. of or connected with a school or schools.
2. of the schoolmen.

1. to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train.
2. to reprimand.

school

1. a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.

1. to form into, or go in, a school, as fish.